Monica Bengoa

Born in 1969 in Santiago, Chile

Lives and works in Santiago, Chile

MEDIA:
Installation, photography, textile
WORK:
My artistic production has revolved around the question of the meaning of the photographic image; the permanence of the photography-like structure that always underlies the transformed image. These construction strategies include operations of transference of photographic images towards other materialities, including procedures related to displacements of drawing, painting and engraving. My investigation around photography has been based on a system of technical and material restrictions, where the optical exercise is transformed into the axis that articulates and regulates the coherence of the final project. It is in this sense that I have established a system of restrictions for the use of color, in which the limited palettes of dyed thistles, color pencils or embroidery threads, allow me to use this procedure as an orthopedic system for the construction of images.